User talk:Elkspacmanager

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! -- Hi, thank you for creating an account and editing logged-in. This will make it easier to discuss things. I commented at the Prescott Elks building's Talk page and will return to the article later.

To anyone else, please give this editor a chance. There is likely an arguable issue with their new username not conforming to username policy that they don't know about, but please don't anyone have a cow. Let us figure it out a bit. I have to go now, will return later. -- do ncr  am  21:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your understanding. Please let me know if I need to correct anything and how. Elkspacmanager (talk) 21:18, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Great, thank you for responding here. The important thing is to chill and not get discouraged by other editors butting in.  It is important to respond to others' legitimate concerns.  It is really, really hard to get started in wikipedia....99.99 percent of new editors get driven away, frustrated.  Wikipedia is supposedly a place where anyone can edit, but there are tons of rules in fact and most new editors' contributions are likely to get wiped out.
 * There is an arguable issue with the username you chose, because it turns out there is policy we should each have individual usernames that do not imply an organization ownership of the account. Policy statement is at Username policy.  Hopefully you can ignore any technical violation for a little while and hopefully no one will interfere for a bit.  Then later you can request a username change to bring your account into conformance.  I presume by your usenname choice that you do have some formal association with the Prescott Elks building organiznation, and you should know there is a Conflict of Interest policy (at wp:COI), but don't worry, that does not prevent you from editing on a topic.  It's just if there are content disagreements, someone with a COI needs to defer to other editors a bit.  Let's just sort out stuff about that article, in discussion at its Talk page.
 * I butted in at the article, and so has editor User:Ebyabe, but for your information Ebyabe is a skilled, long-experienced editor and is, like me, mainly wanting to help. I want to give you some space to develop the article, and I appreciate that you have started to add references, though in the first edit you put them all at the top of the page.  Hopefully you will move them to where they are relevant, i.e. to follow specific statements that they support.  I asked editor Ebyabe to give you some space too.  I have to log off now/soon, but will return to the article later and try to help develop it.  I will also "watchlist" here and should see any response you make here, but feel free to contact me at my Talk page if I seem to have missed something here for more than a day or two.
 * It would help if you would also comment at the Talk page of the article to show that you will respond to concerns. Ciao for now. -- do ncr  am  21:35, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks again. You are correct that I am associated with the Elks PAC. I came on board in December and found that we are somewhat behind the times in our web presence across the board. I am working to fix that. The reason for the references at the top is because I used many sources to complete the article going back and forth between articles so the information flowed. I did not directly quote anyone or any one article. It is really a self written page. My first time. Elkspacmanager (talk) 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)